Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-01-21
BILL NlE ON DRUG STORES.

at hand, aud take pleasure in writ
ing this dictated letter to you, using
) the columns Of the News as delicate
way Of teaching you. will take the
liberty of replying to your last ques-
iion first, if you pardon me. and shy
that you would do better, no doubt,
ut once, in financial way. to go on
with your drug business than to mon
key with literature.
In the first place, your style Of
composition is like the present style
Of dress among men. 1t is absolutely
correct, and, therefore, it is absolute
~ like that of nine men out of every
ten we meet. Your style of writing
has moustache OH it, wears q three.
button cIfaway of some Scotch mix
trre, carries cane, and wears
straight, stand up collar and scarf.
1t is SO correct uNd 30 exactly in con.
fornity with the prevailing style OF
composition, and your thoughts nre
expressed so thoroughly like other
peoples methods of dressing up
their sentences and sand pnpering
the soul out of what they say, tlut l
honestly think you would succeed
better by trying to fubsist upon the
quick sales aud small profits which
the drug trade iiisures.
Now, let us consider the question
OF location:
Seriously, you ought to look over
the ground yourself, but, as you have
asked me to give YOU my best judg,
1nent Oh the question of preference
rs between Kansas aud Colorado. |
will say without hesitation that, if
you mean by the drug business the
} salo OF sure enough drugs. medicines
prints, oils, glass, putty, toilet nticles,
aud prescriptions carefully compoun
ded, L would not go to Kansas ut this
time.
If YOU would like TO go to flour
i~hing country and put our big bass
wood mortar IL front of your shop
in order to sell The tincturc of dam.
nation throughout bleeding Kansas,
now is yo'r golden opportunity.
Now is the accepted time. Ii il il
the great big burning desire of yonr
heart 10 go into II town of 1000 PEG
pie and open the thirteenth drug store
III order that you may stand behind n
tail blnckwnlmut prescription case
day i'll and day out, with II graduate
il one hand and IL Babcock, fire
txtiny"hA"r III the other, filling
orders for whiskry made of stump
water and the jnice nl future punisll1
ment, you will No well to go to Ksnsas.
II is" temperance State, All 10 50.
looms are allowed there. All is n
great success.
~" 80" Ss1ss5itin dummy dug store
,~1lV1RIth two dozen dreary oh glass
bottles OH the shelves, punctnnted by
the hand of time and the Kansas iiy
of the period, and with prohibitory
law ut your back and tall, red bar
rel iii the back room filed with n
mixture that will burn great holes
into natures heart and make the
cemetery blossom as the rose. and in
"a few years Won can sell enough of
this justly celebrated preparation for
household, scientific aud experimen-
tai purposes Only to fill your tlabby
pockets with wealth and paint the
pure air of Kansas bright and in
faumatory red.
If yon sincerity and earnestly yearn
for field where you may go forth
and garner all honest harvest from
the legitimate effort of an upright
soda fountain and free and open sale
of slippery elm i'll it's unadulterated
condition l would go TO some State
where L would not have To enter in.
to competition with style of phar-
macy that has the unholy instincts
and ambitions Of II blind pig. 1 would
not go into the field whe-e red eyed
ruin simply waited for prescription
blank, not necessarily for publication
but simply as guaranty of good
fanh i'll order that it may bound forth
from behind the Prescription case and
populate the poorhouse aud the
l'aupe's he'tie-grown addition to
the silent city of tile dead
The great question Of how best ia